
Wicked plants
Gardening with the RHS
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What Is Urgot Poisoning?
Urugus is a fungus that grows on cereal crops like rye or other grains. And it contains a precursor to elastie, which survives the process of being baked into bread or blued into beer. 19 people went to the gallows during the salem witch trials after they were poisoned with urgot by farmers who didn't know about its dangers. Poison hemlock isa weed around europe, throughout north america. People are pretty used to seeing it everywhere but it's also very toxic. The leaves, the seeds, the roots, all parts of the plant are poisonous. Even in the ukue there are plenty of deadly, dangerous, poisonous plants.
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